Get Parent Position Worker Name from Current Worker Position | D365FO X++

In this blog, we explore how to fetch the Parent Position Worker from a Current Worker Position in D365FO.

The solution revolves around core HCM tables: 

- HcmWorker, 

- HcmPositionWorkerAssignment, 

- HcmPosition, 

- HcmPositionHierarchy.

Source Code:

public Name getParentPositionWorkerName(HcmPositionRecId _positionRecId) {     HcmWorker                   hcmWorker;     HcmPositionWorkerAssignment workerAssignment;     HcmPositionHierarchy        hcmPositionHierarchy;     utcdatetime                 now = DateTimeUtil::getSystemDateTime();       // 1. Find the parent position in the hierarchy     // 2. Join to the assignment table to find who sits in that parent position     // 3. Join to the worker table to get the name     select firstonly * from hcmWorker     join workerAssignment         where workerAssignment.Worker == hcmWorker.RecId            && workerAssignment.ValidFrom <= now            && workerAssignment.ValidTo   >= now     join hcmPositionHierarchy         where hcmPositionHierarchy.ParentPosition == workerAssignment.Position            && hcmPositionHierarchy.Position       == _positionRecId            && hcmPositionHierarchy.ValidFrom     <= now            && hcmPositionHierarchy.ValidTo       >= now;       return hcmWorker.name(); }

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